Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913
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Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913

A Critical Anthology

Mary Ellis Gibson, Mary Ellis Gibson

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Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913

A Critical Anthology

Mary Ellis Gibson, Mary Ellis Gibson

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Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913: A Critical Anthology makes accessible for the first time the entire range of poems written in English on the subcontinent from their beginnings in 1780 to the watershed moment in 1913 when Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature.Mary Ellis Gibson establishes accurate texts for such well-known poets as Toru Dutt and the early nineteenth-century poet Kasiprasad Ghosh. The anthology brings together poets who were in fact colleagues, competitors, and influences on each other. The historical scope of the anthology, beginning with the famous Orientalist Sir William Jones and the anonymous "Anna Maria" and ending with Indian poets publishing in fin-de-siùcle London, will enable teachers and students to understand what brought Kipling early fame and why at the same time Tagore's Gitanjali became a global phenomenon. Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913 puts all parties to the poetic conversation back together and makes their work accessible to American audiences.With accurate and reliable texts, detailed notes on vocabulary, historical and cultural references, and biographical introductions to more than thirty poets, this collection significantly reshapes the understanding of English language literary culture in India. It allows scholars to experience the diversity of poetic forms created in this period and to understand the complex religious, cultural, political, and gendered divides that shaped them.

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Année
2011
ISBN
9780821443576
Sous-sujet
Poetry

APPENDIX

Comic and Satiric Poets of the Long Nineteenth Century

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Quiz
Referring to The Grand Master; or, Adventures of Qui Hi in Hindostan: A Hudibrastic Poem in Eight Cantos by Quiz, the 1862 printing of the Bookseller’s Catalogue declares, “The intention of this work was to hold up to opprobrium the Marquis of Hastings, who was Governor-General of India, and also Commander-in-Chief, from Oct. 1813 to Jan. 1823. It was probably written by W.H. Ireland.” The author is now more widely believed to have been William Combe, a British satirical poet (1741–June 19, 1823). This attribution may also be flawed, for Combe appears to have never lived in India, and the poem attributed to him has a fluent command of Indian argot. Combe, however, did work in partnership with Thomas Rowlandson, a British caricaturist, on most of his books, and Rowlandson was clearly responsible for the highly amusing illustrations that accompanied The Grand Master. Qui hi, translated as “Is anybody there?” was the common term for servant and was used by Indians to mockingly refer to the British.
Sources
[William Combe,] The Grand Master; or, Adventures of Qui Hi in Hindostan: A Hudibrastic Poem in Eight Cantos by Quiz (London: Thomas Tegg, 1816). See also Willis and Sotheran, A Catalogue of Upwards of Fifty Thousand Volumes of Ancient and Modern Books: English and Foreign, in All Classes of Literature and the Fine Arts Including Rare and Curious Books (London: Willis and Sotheran, 1862).
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from The Grand Master

Now, with ambitious hopes elated,
Our youth has been initiated
To all his honors, in a word,
Assumes the gorget, sash and sword,
5
Whether adorn’d with cat1 or lion,
Or plain G.R. we can’t rely on;
Our information only goes
To shew the colour of his cloths;
’Twas red, of course, this information,
10
Convinces you he serv’d the nation,
Whether a company or king,
The muse will not pretend to sing:
The reader may, if he’s inclin’d,
Make him serve which he has a mind,
15
And he’s at liberty to guess,
Of what description was his dress;
’Tis certain that his facings bore
The designation of his corps;
But whether black, or white or blue,
20
Is nothing now to me or you;
Or whether a mistake2 he made
By accident, and for them paid;
For sometimes it may be aver’d,
That subs pay only with their word.
25
(If an apology’s of use)
Necessity has some excuse,
For sad experience often shews
That poverty can truth oppose,
And subalterns, like others, find
30
Justice is rightly painted blind.
Dame fortune frequently bestows
On vice her wealth, on merit blows;
For, after many “a hair bread’th scape,”
Troubles and wants in evr’y shape,
35
He sees, with an indignant frown,
His airy castles tumbling down;
All his fair claims are soon forgot–
Mendacity must be his lot:
He scorns to act an abject part,
40
And droops beneath a broken heart.
Too well the Indian subs. can feel
The truth of what I here reveal;
How often, with a doleful face,
They pay for breakfast with their lace:3
45
They find the tenure of a sword,
Can scarcely bread and cheese afford,
While, ’tis a fact, tho’ strange to tell,
Riches attend the paltry quill.4
Civilian luxury attends
50
The powerful interest of friends,
While merit’s claim is scarcely heard,
Neglect its whole and sole reward:
But now the chearful smile of peace,
Has lighten’d every Briton’s face;
55
Now that John Bull with beef and beer,
Treats as a friend poor old Monsieur,
Nor casts a surly look from Dover,
Defying Monsieur to come over,
But lands him from the very boat,
60
Where he had vow’d to cut his throat;
With Boney’s fate John’s anger ends,
And Boney’s foes and now his friends.
Russians and Prussians, Swedes, and Poles,
Among his friends he now enrolls,
65
And Giles, with open mouth and hat off,
Takes every one for Marshal Platoff;
And this John Bull at once forgets,
Twenty years taxes, war, and debts.
Now with ...

Table des matiĂšres

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. A Note on Names
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Introduction
  10. Sir William Jones
  11. Sir John Horsford
  12. Anna Maria
  13. Lady Maria Nugent
  14. John Leyden
  15. James Atkinson
  16. Reginald Heber
  17. George Anderson Vetch
  18. Horace Hayman Wilson
  19. John Lawson
  20. Thomas Medwin
  21. Emma Roberts
  22. James Ross Hutchinson
  23. Henry Meredith Parker
  24. David Lester Richardson
  25. Honoria Marshall Lawrence
  26. Kasiprasad Ghosh
  27. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
  28. Henry Page
  29. Sir John William Kaye
  30. E.L.
  31. Michael Madhusudan Dutt
  32. Shoshee Chunder Dutt
  33. Govin Chunder Dutt and The Dutt Family Album
  34. Mary Seyers Carshore
  35. Sir Edwin Arnold
  36. Greece Chunder Dutt
  37. Mary Eliza Leslie
  38. Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall
  39. Aru Dutt
  40. Toru Dutt
  41. John Renton Denning
  42. Rabindranath Tagore
  43. Laurence Hope [Adela Cory Nicolson]
  44. Rudyard Kipling
  45. Manmohan Ghose
  46. Joseph Furtado
  47. Aurobindo Ghose
  48. Sarojini Naidu
  49. Appendix: Comic and Satiric Poets of the Long Nineteenth Century
  50. Index of Authors
  51. Index of Titles
Normes de citation pour Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913

APA 6 Citation

Gibson, M. E. (2011). Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913 (1st ed.). Ohio University Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/662402/anglophone-poetry-in-colonial-india-17801913-a-critical-anthology-pdf (Original work published 2011)

Chicago Citation

Gibson, Mary Ellis. (2011) 2011. Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913. 1st ed. Ohio University Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/662402/anglophone-poetry-in-colonial-india-17801913-a-critical-anthology-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Gibson, M. E. (2011) Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913. 1st edn. Ohio University Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/662402/anglophone-poetry-in-colonial-india-17801913-a-critical-anthology-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Gibson, Mary Ellis. Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913. 1st ed. Ohio University Press, 2011. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.